Centralized sale of electronic entomological publications

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Peter Khramov, 06.07.2013 18:04

There are authors of articles/books and other similar materials.
Let's say that these materials haven't been published yet, or they weren't published exclusively, so the author still has the right to distribute them independently.

The author uploads articles to Leppstore, where they are available to everyone for the price + 3 kopecks that the author assigns. At the same time, you can set some benchmarks to make it clear which order of price will be adequate, and which will not.

Everyone can download articles for a small fee for further printing / reading on a computer / in an e-book, etc.

Authors receive a pension increase and an additional audience, as well as an incentive to create materials in convenient digital formats.
Readers receive materials in a civil form, quickly and inexpensively.
The number of horse races serves as an additional indicator of the demand for topics/authors.
Lepstore expands its product range and gets additional visitors.

P. S.
Remote payment methods (bank cards, Webmoney, SMS, terminals, etc.), instant access to paid materials.
The mark-up of the Lepstore is symbolic.

P.S. Theoretically, you can buy the electronic version once, and then post it in the public domain. Piracy, all things considered. But why not pay extra money to a good person (the author) for his work (if there are all the opportunities for this) instead of behaving like an ugly person?..

I ask you to speak out and vote, who thinks about what - very detached from life or quite interesting.

This post was edited by Asar - 06.07.2013 18: 09

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18.11.2018 16:05, Nemov

There has always been and still is such a thing as - MANDATORY MAILING. ... some people forget to do this... what wonder, then, that these publications are becoming virtually unknown to a wide range of readers.

Since an old-fashioned discussion popped up.
Dear Penzyak, have you ever tried this "mandatory mailing list"? And do you know the "required" addresses? Do you have time to go to the post offices, which in some large cities have been "optimized" by 4-5 times, and there are hourly queues? Will this newsletter be funded for you?
But there are not many scientific libraries that biologists and entomologists visit, so even after sending out the publication, it will not become much more famous. Unless he gets into the presidential library, and His Highness can see him.
Publications will become better known if (1) they are sent to specialized scientific libraries rather than "mandatory" ones; (2) they are posted on the Internet at least after some time; (3) finally, they publish something that will be bought even if the publication will appear on the Internet in the future.